Military Medicine

OCP clad bodies appear silently out of the thick night, drifting in like snowflakes to pile along the sides of a well worn path. Combat boots tread out a canticle on the tarmac, soft padding the only sound in the oppressive quiet. No words are spoken. Comrades greet with a…

Welcome back! If you have been following this series we are going to continue to look at various programs offered to Guard and Reservist that have been injured/ill while in a duty status. If you want to go back to catch up, you can click here and here for the…

My friend stood in my driveway, tears welling up in her eyes, as she tried her hardest to keep it together. I knew it was a futile attempt, and gave her a hug; encouraging her to cry and let the years of pent up emotions roll down her cheeks. I’m…

AIC Mitchell performs all assigned duties at the maximum unacceptable level of incompetence. — This is an excerpt from my book, ‘The Adventures of an Air Force Medic.” It’s based on my two years as an air force medic in northern California back in the early ‘80s. Elen called me over to the nurses’ station, “Sean, come here. …

This morning two things happened. My husband left for deployment, and I opened an email. My husband is an officer in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. Most people don’t know it exists, but it’s a branch of the uniformed services under the Surgeon General. There are only…

By Matthew M. Peek, Military Collection Archivist, State Archives of North Carolina Gaston Wilder Rogers was born on May 2, 1884, in Wake County, N.C., to William Haywood and Katie Wilder Rogers. Gaston’s mother was from Alabama. By 1900, the Rogers family was living on West Morgan Street in downtown…